THE WORLD ACCORDING TO US! Michael Savage with Jeff Rovin - "The Global Chessboard" - #912
THE SAVAGE NATION
Michael Savage
4.4 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Savage speaks with Bestselling novelist Jeff Rovin about the geopolitical strategies and domestic struggles facing America. They discuss Trump's plans for Greenland and his strategy against Russia and China. They cover the historical and strategic importance of Greenland and compare it to other geopolitical nations like Venezuela and Iran. They then delve into societal issues including the perceived erosion of national identity and the impact of media on public perception. They cover the hot issues dominating the news cycle including ICE raids, New York Mayor Mamdani, and tensions flaring nationwide.
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| 0:00.0 | And now, the world's most exciting podcast, The Savage Nation, home of borders, language, culture. |
| 0:14.8 | Here he is, Michael Savage. |
| 0:18.9 | All right, everybody. Welcome to the Savage Nation. Today you're in such luck because you have |
| 0:24.7 | the world according to us. Jeff Rovin, guest on the Savage Nation, extremely popular, brilliant |
| 0:31.9 | writer, author of too many books to mention, but more than that, an all-around great guy who's street smart, |
| 0:38.4 | book smart, a philosopher, a poet, a martial artist, an all-around raconteur, and a good friend |
| 0:47.1 | of mine, Jeff, welcome to the Savage Nation. |
| 0:50.5 | Great to be here, Michael. |
| 0:52.1 | Well, it's a new year, and some of it's the same old stuff, and some of it's very worrisome. |
| 0:59.1 | I'd like to begin with the imperial tendencies of this administration, and I would like to say I can support everything that this administration does, but truthfully, as a citizen, I have questions about, for example, well, Greenland, |
| 1:15.9 | Venezuela, Canada? What else is on the map? Cuba? Jeff, what do you think? Are we now an |
| 1:23.0 | imperialist nation? No, I don't think that's true at all. What we're seeing is a reinvigoration of both |
| 1:32.0 | the Monroe Doctrine from 1823, but also the due line, the distant early warning line from |
| 1:38.7 | 1957. When we were using the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland, |
| 1:52.2 | as an early warning system for a possible Soviet incursion by ARC. |
| 1:59.0 | And I think that the president is correctly addressing the fact that that was shut down in 1993. |
| 2:01.5 | So yes, we have... Who was that? |
| 2:02.1 | Was that Bill Clinton? |
| 2:04.4 | 93, yeah, that would have been Clinton. |
| 2:06.6 | My brain is still functioning perfectly. |
| 2:08.4 | Okay, great. |
| 2:09.4 | If you can remember the year and the president, you're in good shape. |
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